On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:14, Chris Devers wrote: > For those that haven't looked at the NPR puzzle url I sent a few minutes > ago, the last puzzle was also fun & possible scriptable: > > A pangram is a sentence that has all letters of the alphabet in it. > For example: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG. FEW QUIPS > GALVANIZED THE MOCK JURY BOX. Now create your own pangram that > includes the name of a famous person. This can be the last name, full > name, or any kind of name, as long as we know who it is. It can be of > any length, although all other things being equal, shorter is better. > Entries were judged on meaning, syntax and overall elegance. > > The winning entry had 30 letters, which is pretty good. Do shorter > examples exist? Using /usr/dict/words [or whatever], can anyone > demonstrate a script that can produce an English sentence as close as > possible to 26 letters?
English sentence? Is, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." an English sentence (parsable, but semantically garbage)? What about "Fry apples the Stallman." (English words, unparsable). "My three-cornered hat has four corners." (internally inconsistent) -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "IP law is a collection of inconsistencies spawned by committees and lobbyists, in perpetuity and throughout the universe. What could be more fun?" -David Dailey _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
